Farewell Sir Terry Pratchett, who wrote some of the funniest books I have ever read, but which like all humour contained some very serious and profound thoughts. My favourites were the ones involving the witches of Lancre, hence the name I adopted when I needed a blogger name to post on that website ...Read More...

This has brightened my morning. From the Daily Mail
There are passages in the Koran which ‘invite people to violence’, one of the Queen’s chaplains said last night. Reverend Canon Gavin Ashenden, the former chaplain of Sussex University and one of 35 who serve Her Majesty, expressed concern about ...Read More...

From the BBC
Nearly 60 imams and leaders of Muslim organisations have signed an open letter to the government accusing it of criminalising Islam. They say that the "terror threat" is being exploited for political capital in the run-up to the general election.
Signatories include ex-journalist ...Read More...

I would use the term 'defected' to Syria myself. Flee suggests escaping from something threatening; there was nothing threatening about the prospect of a good education, a good career and all the benefits of a life in England which was the future before these traitorettes. From the Telegraph
The ...Read More...

From The Telegraph
More than 300 dangerous jihadists have returned to the UK after fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) — far higher than previously thought, The Telegraph has learnt.??
About 700 Islamists considered “dangerous” by the intelligence services have ...Read More...

From the Sunday Times and elsewhere.
Cage, (advocacy group that defended Jihadi John ) has tapped into grassroots support, raising more than £18,000 in the past few days through an online appeal after its bank accounts were closed and its main charity backers were forced to stop funding it. .. faced ...Read More...

The election is in 8 weeks. UKIP is gaining popularity. The legacy parties receive nothing but derision and criticism. So "Now the crackdown is launched". Should have done this two years ago, or more. Should have done this in July 2005
From the Sunday Telegraph.
The Government is planning a ...Read More...

From Sky News
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State in an audio statement, according to SITE.The monitoring group said part of the message, which has been translated from Arabic, read:
"We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims Ibrahim ibn Awad ...Read More...

From the Times and the Daily Mail
Six children who bravely gave evidence of being groomed and used for gang sex were accused by a defence lawyer of claiming serial abuse because “it’s better to be a victim than a slag”.
The Cambridge-educated QC, Michael Magarian, QC, who specialises in gang related ...Read More...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have destroyed ancient remains of the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra in northern Iraq, the tourism and antiquities ministry said on Saturday.
An official told Reuters that the ministry had received reports from its employees in the northern city of Mosul, which is ...Read More...

From the Guardian, Sky News and the Wall Street Journal
A Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of people standing near a tram stop in Jerusalem, injuring at least five, including four security officials, Israeli police said. None were seriously injured.
The incident... happened ...Read More...

The Islamic terrorist known as Jihadi John once kidnapped two schoolboys at gunpoint in retaliation for a gang attack on his brother, the Standard can reveal today.
A former friend of the terrorist told the Standard it was punishment for a vicious attack the previous day when he and Emwazi’s younger ...Read More...

From the German edition of The Local
Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that they had ordered police to arrest a 22-year-old man at Düsseldorf airport on suspicion of being a member of the Isis terrorist group.
They accuse the man, a German citizen named as Kerim Marc B., of having taken part ...Read More...

From the Swedish edition of The Local
The controversial Swedish artist who was the presumed target of one of the Copenhagen terror attacks last month was set to make his first public appearance on Friday. But the talk has been cancelled over security concerns.
Lars Vilks was due to speak at a ...Read More...

The Manchester Evening News
A chemistry teacher from Manchester who was determined to fight with Islamic State despite the desperate pleas of his family was prepared to kill in Syria, a court has heard. Jamshed Javeed, from Levenshulme, was part of a group of young Muslim men from Manchester who ...Read More...

There is a very true letter in The Times this evening from several Sikh and Hindu organisations and respected individuals.
Sir, For many years political correctness has led to the identity of the community involved in the sexual grooming of children and young women in the UK being described as Asian ...Read More...

From the Independent
Police investigating UK extremists travelling to Syria have arrested two men in London on suspicion of money-laundering. Scotland Yard said the arrests came as part of an investigation into large-scale fraud which involved raids across six addresses in the capital today. Investigations ...Read More...

I thought if I waited a couple of hours this would come out from behind the paywall at The Times via another news site. From Breitbart London
A national debate is urgently needed to understand why Pakistani-heritage gangs have been abusing white girls across the country, according to a serious case review ...Read More...

The Oxford Mail were unfailing in their coverage of the trial of the worst gang apprehended in this investigation so I went straight to their website for coverage of the release of the SCR this morning. That is, the Serious Case Review by Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board investigating why men ...Read More...

From the Mirror and the Peterborough Telegraph
A restaurant boss groomed girls as young as 12 with gifts including fast food, cash and flowers, before plying them with booze, a court has heard. Married Mohammed Khubaib, 43, had an almost predatory interest in underage girls but claimed to be their ...Read More...

Greater Manchester Police charge ten men with catalogue of offences as part of Operation Doublet into alleged sexual exploitation of teenage girls by older men. The charges are as follows:
Shayfur Rahman, 31, from Prestwich, has been charged with one count of rape;
Kutab Miah, 34, from Rochdale, ...Read More...

Mohammed Emwazi's younger brother voiced support for the radical Islamic cleric who inspired one of Lee Rigby’s killers, the Telegraph can disclose. Omar Emwazi, 21, indicated that he admired Sheikh Khalid Yasin on his Facebook profile, which was deleted shortly after his brother was identified as "Jihadi ...Read More...

From the Independent
Police in the German port city of Bremen arrested two suspected Islamic extremists and detained several others following warnings of an imminent terrorist attack and the discovery of a large cache of Israeli manufactured sub-machine guns in the city.
Scores of heavily ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the Guardian
A damning report is expected to disclose that more than 300 young people have been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs in Oxfordshire over the past 15 years.
Systemic failures by police and social services meant victims were subjected to years of sexual ...Read More...

From The Sunday Telegraph
It has emerged that the school of Mohammed Emwazi was attended by two other men who subsequently became linked to Islamist terror groups.
Choukri Ellekhlifi, a contemporary of Jihadi John at Quintin Kynaston academy, was killed in Syria in 2013 after joining up with ...Read More...